Issue #43
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Early Late Summer, 2000

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic[B]	Osho [Rajneesh]	St. Martin's Press	"Autobiography"
Children in the Middle Ages:[B] 5th - 15th Centuries	Danièle Alexandre-Bodon and Didier Lett	Notre Dame	History --- Children
Pain: The Science of Suffering[B]	Patrick Wall	Columbia University Press	Study of Pain
My Father Travels	Dilip Chitre	[Poem]	Contemporary Indian Poetry
Letter from Skåne	Dr. Phage	[Article]	Lund
In the Service of the King: The Story of My Life	Aimée Semple McPherson	Boni & Liveright	Review by H. L. Mencken
My Life	Isadora Duncan	Boni & Liveright	Review by H. L. Mencken
People Who Torture	Stanley Milgram	[Reading]	Psychological Study
Trails to Tiburón:[N] The 1894 and 1895 Field Diaries of W J McGee	Hazel McFeely Fontana, Transcriber	University of Arizona	Geological Study of the Sonoran Desert
Millions of Monarchs, Bunches of Beetles:[N] How Bugs Find Strength in Numbers	Gilbert Waldbauer	Harvard	Study of Bugs
Nabokov's Butterflies:[N] Unpublished and Uncollected Writings	Brian Boyd, Robert M. Pyle, Dmitri Nabokov	Beacon	Anthology of Nabokov's Writings
The Shark with a Lightbulb On His Tongue	Sam Swope	[Reading]	Children's Fiction
Top Pop Hits	RALPH Editors	[List]	Most Popular Reviews in RALPH
Victorian Painting	Christopher Wood	Bulfinch	Art --- Victorian Paintings
When I Was Mortal	Javier Marías	New Directions	Modern Spanish Short Stories

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"

Issue #44
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Mid-Late Summer, 2000

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Worthwhile Books of the Season	RALPH Editors	[List]	Best Books of the Season
Cider Hard and Sweet:[B] History, Traditions, and Making Your Own	Ben Watson	Countryman Press	How-to-do-it
A Queer Chivalry:[B] The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins	Julia F. Saville	University of Virginia	Literary Biography
A Fly for the Prosecution:[B] How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes*	M. Lee Goff	Harvard	Forensic Entomology
Famine in Russia	Brian Moynahan	[Reading]	Collectivization of the Soviet Kulaks --- 1930 - 1933
Sam Goody Then . . .And Now	Matthew Lasar	[Article]	Personal History of Sam Goodys
Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery	Maxine Kumin	Norton	Disability --- Personal History
Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell	Lyall Watson	Norton	A Study of the Nose
Eiserene Rose: The Story of the Archangel Mihaela	Charles Krafft	[Poem]	Modern American Love Poetry
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:[N] Written by Herself	Harriet Jacobs	Penguin	Memoirs --- Slavery
The Crystal and the Way of Light:[N] Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen	Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, John Shane, Editor	Snow Lion	The Way of Dzogchen
Demeure:[N] Fiction and Testimony	Jacques Derrida	Stanford	Study of Derrida
The Nursing Home	John Banville	[Reading]	Psychology
Nutmeg: Or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History	Giles Milton	Penguin	History of Commerce

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #45
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Late, Late Summer, 2000

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Boils	Charles Bukowski	[Reading]	Skin Problems
The Tipping Point:[B] How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference	Malcolm Gladwell	Little, Brown	Study of Details
My Friend Is Struggling with Unplanned Pregnancy[B]	Josh McDowell and Ed Stewart	Word	Inspirational
Ham on Rye*[B]	Charles Bukowski	Rebel	Modern Fiction
Contemplating Again the Jade Chrysanthemum, or Why the Ancient Chinese Poets Remained Unmarried	Len Roberts	[Poem]	Contemporary Poetry
Herbert Hoover Visits Los Angeles	Charles Bukowski	[Poem]	Contemporary Poetry
Swarm	Jorie Graham	Ecco/Harper Collins	Contemporary Poetry
When in the Course of Human Events:[N] Arguing the Case for Southern Secession	Charles Adams	Roman & Littlefield	Possible History
Wild:[N] Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places	Clint Ellis, Editor	Avalon	Stories of Survival
Dust:[N] A History of the Small and the Invisible	Joseph A. Amato	University of California	Contemporary Scientific Studies
If Superman Lived in Mexico	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Mexico and Disability
Rescuing Jeffrey	Richard Galli	Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill	Disability
Strange Foods: An Epicurean Adventure Around the World	Jerry Hopkins	Periplus/Tuttle	Exotic Cookery

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #46
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Very Late Summer, 2000

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Indian School:[B] Teaching the White Man's Way	Michael L. Cooper	Clarion	History of BIA Schools
The Secret Knowledge of Water:[B] Discovering the Essence of the American Desert*	Craig Childs	Sasquatch	Water in the Desert
The War of the Century:[B] When Hitler Fought Stalin	Laurence Rees	The New Press	WWII
Fishers of Men	Kate Gale	Red Hen Press	Women's Poetry
On Dying	Elizabeth Gips	[Article]	Final Statement
The Ethics of Homelessness: Philosophical Perspectives	G. John M. Abbarno, Editor	Rodopi	Essays on Homelessness
The Innocents Within	Robert Daley	Villard	Novel --- WWII
The Lolos	Tom Bradley	[Article]	Contemporary Chinese Aboriginals
Children of a Vanished World:[N] Photographs of Roman Vishniac	Mara Vishniac Kohn and Miriam Hartman Flacks, Editors	University of California	Photographic Essay, Life in Central Europe, pre-WWII
Wonders of the Natural Mind:[N] The Essence of Dzogchen in the Native Bon Tradition of Tibet	Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche	Snow Lion	Tibetan Buddhism
Circumcision:[N] A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery	David L. Gollaher	Basic Books	Circumcision
The Architecture of the Shakers	Julia Nicoletta	Countryman Press	Early American Architecture
The Most Popular Book Reviews	RALPH Editors	[List]	Reviews that Receive the Most Hits
Trapping Rats and Other Problems	Kate Gale	[Poem]	Contemporary Women's Poetry

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #47
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Very, Very Early Fall, 2000

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
The Grand Canyon and the Southwest*	Ansel Adams	Little Brown	Historic Photographs of the American Southwest
The Experts	Jack Myers	[Poem]	Poem about Poets
My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latino King	Reymundo Sanchez	Chicago Review Press	Gangbanging
Netherlandish Art --- 1400 - 1600[B]	Henk van Os and others	Waanders/Rijksmuseum	Art --- Late Medieval and Early Renaissance
One Hundred Jobs:[B] A Panorama of Work in the American City	Ron Howell	The New Press	Photographic Essay
The Kommandant's Mistress[B]	Sherri Szeman	Arcade	Fiction --- WWII
Five Great Books	RALPH Editors	[List]	Five Great Books
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	David Eggers	Simon & Schuster	Coming-of-Age Novel
"Ay, but to die and go we know not where"	Frank Kermode	[Reading]	Thoughts on Shakespeare's use of Language
Shrike's Passion in the Luncheonette	Nathanael West	[Reading]	1930s American Literature
The Øresund Fixed Link	Dr. Phage	[Article]	Thoughts on Denmark and Sweden
The Fundamental Mind	Master Song Chol	[Reading]	Thoughts on Buddha and Jesus

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #48
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Early Fall, 2000

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
My Father and Myself	J. R. Ackerley	New York Review	Memoirs of the Early 20th Century
Acupuncture and Cleansing at Forty-Eight	Len Roberts	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
The Buddha Scroll[B]	Introduction by Thomas Cleary	Shambhala	Reproduction of Original Scroll from 1180
Sacred Roads:[B] Adventures from the Pilgrimage Trail*	Nicholas Shrady	Harper/San Francisco	Travel --- Pilgrimages
The Black Room at Longwood:[B] Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena	Jean-Paul Kauffmann	Four Walls, Eight Windows	Thoughts on Saint Helena and Napoleon's Exile
Sex and Violence and the Federal Communications Commission	L. W. Milam	[Article]	Thoughts on the Regulation of Sex and Violence on American Television
Contempt	Alberto Moravia	New York Review	Contemporary Italian Fiction
Tales from Rhapsody Home:[N] Or, What They Don't Tell You About Senior Living	John Gould	Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill	Thoughts on Retirement Homes
Dancing Alone in Mexico:[N] From the Border to Baja and Beyond	Ron Butler	University of Arizona	Travel, Mexico
The Wildest Dream:[N] The Biography of George Mallory	Peter & Leni Gillman	Mountaineers Books	George Mallory and Mountaineering
A Science Fiction Fable from the 19th Century	James Billington	[Reading]	Russian Culture
Living in the Number One Country: Reflections from a Critic of American Empire	Herbert I. Schiller	Seven Stories Press	Critique of American Corporations
Sister Ann Zita Shows Us the Foolishness of the Forbidden Books	Len Roberts	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
St. Petersburg	James Billington	[Reading]	Russian Culture

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #49
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Early Mid-Fall, 2000

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
In the Land of White Death:[B] An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic	Valerian Albanov	Random House	Travel in the Arctic North in 1912
The War Against Boys[B]	Christina Hoff Sommers	Simon and Schuster	The Case Against Feminists
The Boy in the Lake[B]	Eric Swanson	St. Martins	Fiction --- Growing up in Ohio
Amphibians:[B] The World of Frogs, Toads, Salamanders and Newts	Richard Hofrichter, Editor	Firefly Books	Frogs, Toads, Salamanders and Newts
The Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt	Hugh Gregory Gallagher	[Reading]	FDR
The Hindoo Matchstick	J. R. Ackerley	[Reading]	Memoirs of turn-of-the-century India
Hidden Witness: African-American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War	Jackie Napolean Wilson	St. Martin's Press	Photographic Images from the 19th Century
Medicine Woman	Cheryl Savageau	[Poem]	Native American Poetry
The Earth Is a Satellite of the Moon	Lionel Rugama	[Poem]	Astronaut Poetry
Feasting, Fasting[N]	Anita Desai	Mariner	Fiction --- India
Atget[N]	John Szarkowski	Callaway	Turn-of-the-Century French Photography
Nightwood[N]	Djuna Barnes	Modern Library	Fiction of the 30s
Still Here:[N] Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying	Ram Dass	Riverhead	Autobiography

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #50
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Mid-Fall, 2000

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Worthwhile Books for the Fall	RALPH Editors	[List]	Twelve of the Best Books
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson[B]	Chester G Hearn	McFarland	19th Century U. S. History
Zen Sex:[B] The Way of Making Love	Philip Toshio Sudo	Harper/San Francisco	Sexual Aspects of Zen Buddhism
Vogue Women[B]	Georgina Howell	Thunder's Mouth Press	Fashionable Women
Three by Belloc	Hillaire Belloc	[Poems]	Children's Poetry
Johann Sebastian Bach	Christoph Wolff	Norton	Biography
Hanging Clothes in the Sun	Cheryl Savageau	[Poem]	Contemporary Poetry
Hell on Wheels	Stephanie Thomas	[Reading]	Radical Disability
Storm[N]	Allen Noren	Traveler's Tales	Contemporary Travel --- Motorcycle
The Tree of Life[N]	Hugh Nissenson	Paul Dry	Fiction about the 19th Century
The Bewitchment of Silver:[N] The Social Economy of Mining in Nineteenth-Century Peru	José R. Deustua	Ohio University Press	Silver Production in Peru in the 19th Century
Good-Bye My Friend: Pet Cemeteries, Memorials, and Other Ways to Remember, a Collection of Thoughts, Feelings, and Resources	Michele Lanci-Altomare	BowTie	Funerary Practices for Pets
Shakespeare's Language*	Frank Kermode	Farrar Straus	Studies in Shakespeare
The Life of Richard Wagner: Volume One 1813-1848	Ernest Newman	Alfred A Knopf	Review by H. L. Mencken
Wagner	W. J. Turner	Macmillan	Review by H. L. Mencken
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex*	Nathaniel Philbrick	Viking	Whale-Hunting in the 19th Century
The Zeroth Number	Charles Seife	[Reading]	Zero and One

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #51
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Late Fall, 2000

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Acupuncture and Cleansing at Forty-Eight	Len Roberts	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
Emanuel Swedenborg Seeing Angels	Emanuel Swedenborg	[Reading]	18th Century Angeology
Blackbird Dust: Essays, Poems, and Photographs	Jonathan Williams	Turtle Point	Memoirs
The Great Arc:[B] The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named	John Keay	Harper Collins	19th Century Geography
The Book of War:[B] 25 Centuries of Great War Writing	John Keegan	Penguin	Essays on War
A Stubborn Light:[B] The Best of the Sun, Vol. III	Sy Safransky, Editor	Sun Publishing	Anthology
Life on a Chicken Ranch	Betty MacDonald	[Reading]	Early 20th Century Chicken Study
The Rooster in the Wristwatch	Dr. Phage	[Article]	Talking Electronic Do-Dads
Loving Sabotage[N]	Amélie Nothomb	New Directions	Memoirs
The Divine Duty of Servants:[N] A Book of Worship	Rolando Perez	Cool Groove	Masochism
Gertrude Bell:[N] The Arabian Diaries, 1913 - 1914	Rosemary O'Brien, Editor	Syracuse University Press	Travel in Arabia
Oranges from Palestine	Mike Maggio	[Poem]	Contemporary Poetry
No One's Perfect	Hirotada Ototake	Kodansha	Tetra-amelia
Emanuel Swedenborg's Journal of Dreams	Commentary by Wilson van Dusen	Swedenborg Foundation	Dreams --- mid 18th Century
Why They Do It	Cheryl Savageau	[Poem]	Contemporary Poetry

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #52
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Early Winter, 2000

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
A Ramble through My War:[B] Anzio and Other Joys	Charles F. Marshall	Louisana State University	Memoirs --- WWII
Coloring Your Prayers:[B] An Inspirational Coloring Book for Making Dreams Come True	Carolyn Manzi	Crown	Dream-work
Baradla Cave[B]	Eva Svankmajerová	Twisted Spoon Press, Prague	Contemporary Czech Fiction
The Truth About Dogs: An Inquiry into the Ancestry, Social Conventions, Mental habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris	Stephen Budiansky	Viking	Canine Lore
The Redwoods of Baja California	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	Travel in Baja
The Erik Erikson Reader	Robert Coles, Editor	Norton	Lectures and Essays
So Far from God: The U. S. War with Mexico, 1846 - 1848	John S. D. Eisenhower	University of Oklahoma	Mexican-American War
The Microbe	Hillaire Belloc	[Poem]	Children's Poetry
Malignant Self Love:[N] Narcissism Revisited	Sam Vaknin, Ph.D	Narcissus Publications	Mental Health
Malignant Sadness:[N] The Anatomy of Depression	Lewis Wolpert	The Free Press	Mental Health
To a Distant Island[N]	James McConkey	Paul Dry Books	Anton Chekhov
The Excitement	Frank McCourt	[Reading]	Onanism
God's Blessing	Len Roberts	[Poem]	Modern American Poetry
A Parliament of Trees	V. Garshin	[Reading]	19th Century Russian Literature
Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives	Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.	Simon & Schuster	Contemporary Pharmacology
Martin Luther and 15th Century Rome	Erik Erikson	[Reading]	Essay
The RALPH Top Pops	RALPH Editors	[List]	Twenty of our Most Popular Reviews

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit